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Willy Fautré, former chargé de mission at the Cabinet of the Belgian Ministry of Education and at the Belgian Parliament. He is the director of Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF), an NGO based in Brussels that he founded in December 1988. His organization defends human rights in general with a special focus on ethnic and religious minorities, freedom of expression, women’s rights and LGBT people. HRWF is independent from any political movement and any religion. Fautré has carried out fact-finding missions on human rights in more than 25 countries, including in perilous regions such as in Iraq, in Sandinist Nicaragua or in Maoist held territories of Nepal. He is a lecturer in universities in the field of human rights. He has published many articles in university journals about relations between state and religions. He is a member of the Press Club in Brussels. He is a human rights advocate at the UN, the European Parliament and the OSCE. If you are interested in us following up your case, get in touch.
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Deregistration attempt of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Norway declared invalid by the...

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On Friday 14 March, the Borgarting Court of Appeal issued a landmark judgment declaring the loss of registration and denial of state grants...
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UKRAINE The UOC, the historical branch of the Russian Orthodox Church...

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On Independence Day, President Zelensky signed Law № 8371 banning the activities of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) in Ukraine through the Ukrainian Orthodox...
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FRANCE Police raids on peaceful yoga practitioners and abuses in police...

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On 28 November 2023, just after 6 a.m., a SWAT team of around 175 policemen wearing black masks, helmets, and bullet proof vests, simultaneously...
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Russia, A court fined a disabled Jehovah’s Witness suffering from cancer...

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On August 8, 2014, Judge Sergey Lytkin of the Kurgan City Court convicted Anatoliy Isakov, 59, for so-called extremism simply for holding peaceful private Christian worship...
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European Court: Russia to pay 160,000 EUR to 16 Jehovah’s Witnesses,...

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On 18 July 2024, the European Court of Human Rights examined nine complaints filed by Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia who were subjected to illegal...
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One year after the Russian shelling of Odesa and its Cathedral,...

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The world community strongly condemned Russia’s shelling of the historical center of Odesa which damaged and disfigured the Orthodox Transfiguration Cathedral. Many Western delegations...
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Argentina – BAYS Yoga School, Nullity of elevation to trial confirmed...

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Controversial accusations of criminal activities and prosecutions rejected for the second time. A setback for the prosecutors On 5 June last, the National Chamber of...
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Russia – Three Jehovah’s Witnesses sentenced to 78, 74 and 27 months in prison

Gevorg Yeritsyan, a Jehovah’s Witness sentenced to 6 years and 2 months in prison at the end of June, declared in court  at the...

FRANCE – I was a victim of a police raid and was abusively detained for two days and two nights

Inappropriate and disproportionate use of massive police raids on several yoga centers and abusive detention of dozens of yoga practitioners. Still no progress in...

RUSSIA: Shootings in several cities of Dagestan, a synagogue and churches attacked

At least 19 people were victims of an attack on police officers, Orthodox churches and synagogues in Dagestan Derbent and Makhachkala on Sunday evening....

RUSSIA: Heavy prison terms for 9 Jehovah’s Witnesses in the occupied territory of Crimea

Nine Jehovah’s Witnesses living in the occupied territory of Crimea are currently serving heavy prison terms of 54 to 72 months for exercising their...

Beware of the infiltration of pro-Putin journalists in the Brussels-EU Bubble 

Researchers of the Brussels-based NGO Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF) have just discovered an infiltration attempt by a pro-Putin Ukrainian media activist in the Brussels-EU...

The EU and the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, a fortress under siege

East of the European Union, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, 84, courageously holds a vulnerable fortress defending the historical presence of Christianity in Turkey,...

Qatar regularly rescues Ukrainian children illegally transferred and kept by Russia

On 22 May, it was announced that 13 Ukrainian children were returned from Russian-occupied territories to their homeland thanks to the mediating role of...

A Russian Jehovah’s Witness was sentenced to 8 years in prison 

On May 16, 2024, the Samara Regional Court confirmed the sentence of Jehovah's Witness Alexander Chagan to 8 years in prison under Part 1...

Spectacular simultaneous SWAT raids on Romanian yoga centers (II): Fact-checking of the operation in Buthiers, France

Disproportionate use of police forces in search of… inexistent victims of MISA On 28 November 2023, just after 6 a.m., a SWAT team of around...

Fleeing from Jordan to Greece because of their change of religion

It has been almost one year since Basir Al Sqour, a 47-year-old former military officer in the Jordanian army with the rank of "major,"...
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